Can't listen to HID control channel. Address already in use

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

Just installed F7 on my Compaq Presario V6107AU notebook., which
previously had FC6.

During startup, it says:

Starting hidd Can't listen to HID control channel. Address already in
use [FAILED]

The only reference I could find via google is in french. Also, dmesg
does not show anything useful that would give more explanation of the
problem:


[jsalvo at c210-49-15-141 ~]$ dmesg | grep -i -C5 hidd
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

However, I do have this in /var/log/messages:

Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: irq 7: nobody cared (try
booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: Call Trace:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff802ae114>]
__report_bad_irq+0x30/0x72
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff802ae323>]
note_interrupt+0x1cd/0x20e
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff802aedfd>]
handle_level_irq+0xb9/0xf1
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff802582ac>]
call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff80265498>] do_IRQ+0xf1/0x15f
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff80263d5d>]
default_idle+0x0/0x3d
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff80257631>]
ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8022dfb7>]
unix_poll+0x0/0x96
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff80263d86>]
default_idle+0x29/0x3d
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:  [<ffffffff8024423b>] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xaf
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: handlers:
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: [<ffffffff803b431f>]
(usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x52)
Jun 16 23:15:45 c210-49-15-141 kernel: Disabling IRQ #7

The only way I could get rid of the above trace is by removing
"noapic" from the kernel boot parameter, but if I remove "noapic", I
would get lockups and my notebook would freeze under a few seconds /
minutes even before the startup completes. So I have to leave the
"noapic" option added.


Furthermore, my Olympus digital camera when plugged-in to the USB port
is not recognised in F7, but it did with FC6.

When my Olympus digital camera is plugged-in to the USB port, the
camera displays the options "PC, PRINT, EXIT". When I select "PC", it
displays "ONE MOMENT" and nothing happens. Under FC6, after displaying
'ONE MOMENT", the LEDs on the camera would light up and eventually a
new mount point is shown on the notebook.

It is as if the digital camera is waiting for some input or signal
from the notebook.

Any ideas ?

Regards,

J